Well, look at my forcefully updated pc...
Shinny, isn't it? Yeah, big pc crisis, which, luckily it has been solved *looks suspiciously at R. Daniel Olivaw, who only hums contently*
What happens are you asking? Ok, I tell you, but under a cut, because, seriously, tl;dr.
All of this begun last January, when my parents were still here. Big freeze, corrupted Wundows (Yes, I know, not surprise), so, as I had to reinstall, I decide to go for Windows 7, as it was working very nicely on my son's pc.
Of course, in MY pc, it didn't do it so nicely. First, W7 didn't like my G-Force card nor my scanner. Actually there is not W7 driver for any of them. I installed a Virtual Workstation with XP, and, that way, I tricked my scanner to work. And yes, it's a very old scanner, but works waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay better than the newer I had at work. And I am not to discard a perfectly functional scanner just because Genius wants me to buy a new one!
Now, the video card was a whole other problem. Vista drivers were the closest thing, but they didn't let me to use an expanded desktop, in an independent monitor, so, no good! But, whit the old one, I was getting BSOD at least once a day.
And, in some of those forced reboots, my Bios lost its configuration. when trying to reboot, I was getting an error message about a failure on my main HD, because, somehow, the settings had changed and my real C:/ wasn't my default booting disk, but any of the other two, or the DVD. Weeeeeird.
Soooo... I went to The Oracle, meaning, internet forums, and discovered it was a HUGE issue for those of use who were unlucky enough to use G-Force cards and Windows 7. Bit, eventually, I found a solution, using Riva Tunner.
I though everything was fixed, and working peachy. That shows you how naive I can be. Yes, even at this age.
Tuesday afternoon, I have the pc working as always, with the monitor turning off. In between two students, I went to check some download and found the pc had rebooted otself, and now was giving me again the failure error.
I sighed very, very pathetically, went to the set-up, changed the boot settings, and try to start the pc again.
It did star, and the first Windows screen showed up... but then, it died there...
Further test tell me my HD had really died. Big *headwall* moment there.
So, I got a new one, a 400 Gb one and cloned my old HD there. I didn't lost not a single file, can you believe it?
Anyway, 10 hours later, clonation process successful, I went to work. When I come back from there, yesterday, switched the disk, and the pc booted, Windows booted, and I even checked my connection \o/
Except...no
I reseted the pc and... never start up again.
So, I give up, call my son and asked him to take it to his workshop, but only thing I could think was power supply had burned along with the HD.
He took it, and then, the news: the motherboard was dead, dead, dead!
So, now I have a new motherboard, a new Hard disk and 2 extras mb of RAM. And we don't know yet what exactly happened here. But, never mind. Is working
As long as ut's working, I am a happy camper...
Also... SOUTHLAND IS BACK!!!!!
And that's all my friends, because in half an hour my first student will show up, and I need to do some stuff.
Update on the kitties will come later
Have a woonderful week-end!
What happens are you asking? Ok, I tell you, but under a cut, because, seriously, tl;dr.
All of this begun last January, when my parents were still here. Big freeze, corrupted Wundows (Yes, I know, not surprise), so, as I had to reinstall, I decide to go for Windows 7, as it was working very nicely on my son's pc.
Of course, in MY pc, it didn't do it so nicely. First, W7 didn't like my G-Force card nor my scanner. Actually there is not W7 driver for any of them. I installed a Virtual Workstation with XP, and, that way, I tricked my scanner to work. And yes, it's a very old scanner, but works waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay better than the newer I had at work. And I am not to discard a perfectly functional scanner just because Genius wants me to buy a new one!
Now, the video card was a whole other problem. Vista drivers were the closest thing, but they didn't let me to use an expanded desktop, in an independent monitor, so, no good! But, whit the old one, I was getting BSOD at least once a day.
And, in some of those forced reboots, my Bios lost its configuration. when trying to reboot, I was getting an error message about a failure on my main HD, because, somehow, the settings had changed and my real C:/ wasn't my default booting disk, but any of the other two, or the DVD. Weeeeeird.
Soooo... I went to The Oracle, meaning, internet forums, and discovered it was a HUGE issue for those of use who were unlucky enough to use G-Force cards and Windows 7. Bit, eventually, I found a solution, using Riva Tunner.
I though everything was fixed, and working peachy. That shows you how naive I can be. Yes, even at this age.
Tuesday afternoon, I have the pc working as always, with the monitor turning off. In between two students, I went to check some download and found the pc had rebooted otself, and now was giving me again the failure error.
I sighed very, very pathetically, went to the set-up, changed the boot settings, and try to start the pc again.
It did star, and the first Windows screen showed up... but then, it died there...
Further test tell me my HD had really died. Big *headwall* moment there.
So, I got a new one, a 400 Gb one and cloned my old HD there. I didn't lost not a single file, can you believe it?
Anyway, 10 hours later, clonation process successful, I went to work. When I come back from there, yesterday, switched the disk, and the pc booted, Windows booted, and I even checked my connection \o/
Except...no
I reseted the pc and... never start up again.
So, I give up, call my son and asked him to take it to his workshop, but only thing I could think was power supply had burned along with the HD.
He took it, and then, the news: the motherboard was dead, dead, dead!
So, now I have a new motherboard, a new Hard disk and 2 extras mb of RAM. And we don't know yet what exactly happened here. But, never mind. Is working
As long as ut's working, I am a happy camper...
Also... SOUTHLAND IS BACK!!!!!
And that's all my friends, because in half an hour my first student will show up, and I need to do some stuff.
Update on the kitties will come later
Have a woonderful week-end!